Between doomsday-saying op-eds and fear-mongering pundits, the Canadian legacy media was in a full-blown meltdown when covering President Donald Trump’s election victory on Tuesday night.
True North compiled a list of some of the legacy media’s most dramatic moments in the wake of Trump’s victory.
Trump’s election strategy “directly out of Hitler’s playbook”
The CBC’s US election coverage hosted a Democrat strategist who compared Trump’s election strategy to “Hitler’s playbook.”
After a question from the CBC regarding Trump saying the 2020 election was rigged, Kevin Sheridan, the Republican strategist noted how the Hunter Biden laptop story was suppressed by the media and tech giants like Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta. He referenced a poll that found that Americans would have voted for Trump if the laptop story was real.
Aisha Mills, the Democrat’s Strategist on the show, began saying that Trump’s strategy to win the election came “directly out of Hitler’s playbook.”
“You’re talking about the propaganda campaign and the playbook of Trump. This is not new. This is not surprising. This is directly out of Hitler’s playbook. This is out of an autocrat playbook,” Mills said.
She said Trump has “masterfully” gotten the majority of Americans to believe “the game” is rigged against them, to sow distrust in public institutions and “the free press.”
“There might not be many Latino’s left” after Trump’s done deporting illegal immigrants
Mills then stoked fears that “there might not be many Latinos left” after Trump finished “rounding up” illegal immigrants during his plan to deport illegal immigrants from the US.
“There may not be many left after Trump decides he’s going to round them up and deport everybody,” she said. “ I don’t think anybody’s illegal,” she said.
She later agreed that many immigrants are “just here illegally,” before comparing Trump’s plan to internment camps for Japanese people during World War 2.
“I’m just reminded of a time when there was authority to have internment camps and to round up Japanese people and someone who is of Japanese descent,” Mills said.
“There’s a white power element” at play in Trump’s election
The Democrat strategist on the CBC panel also said there was a “white power” element at play in the election as Trump was leading in the election race.
“You have this other idea of ‘let’s make America great’ and go backwards. Where, essentially, the power structure in America was made up mostly of a certain kind of person, right?” Mills said.
“There was a white power element to that and you’re seeing that play out in these elections, too.”
Connecting Elon Musk to Russia and China
CBC’s Adrienne Arsenault questioned how Americans will react to Elon Musk, who has been promised a role in cutting government spending by Trump’s government.
While speaking, Arsenault implied ties to industries in Russia and China compromised Musk.
Despite Musk’s international business ties, he has notably donated Starlink to Ukraine to help in its fight against Vladamir Putin’s invasion forces.
Trump’s victory a global “crisis like no other”
Another outlet, The Globe and Mail, released an op-ed calling Trump’s victory a global “crisis like no other.”
Columnist Andrew Coyne said NATO will become “effectively obsolete” and claimed Ukraine was “done for” and that China will invade Taiwan as a result of Trump’s previous presidency.
He also said Trump will begin arresting those who “displeased him” and his proposed tariffs will “tank the world economy,” and that the illegal immigrants he deports will be put in internment camps “probably for years.”
Stoking fears about Jamil Jivani’s friendship with VP-elect JD Vance and connecting Pierre Poilievre to Donald Trump
The CBC News anchor Janyce McGregor, in response to Pierre Poilievre’s congratulatory message to Trump said the Conservative leader’s message of caring about Canadian jobs echoes that of Trump’s campaign for the US.
“The interesting thing about even this initial message by Pierre Poilievre is this is all about jobs that exactly echoes the kind of rhetoric you do hear from the Trump campaign that you hear from people who supported Donald Trump in the US as voters,” McGregor said.
She then began to sound the alarm about the recently elected Conservative MP for Durham, Jamil Jivani, going to Yale with the US VP-elect JD Vance.
“Someone in Pierre Poilievre’s caucus knows the minds of this incoming administration better than most. His name is Jamil Jivanii…he knows (Vance) quite well,” she said. “Sort of someone very close to the mindset of the incoming administration, sitting right there in Conservative caucus this morning.”
She then went on to note that about 50% of the Conservative base said they “would welcome a Trump presidency.
